Editing Fever (section)

==Society and culture==
===Mythology===
[[File:Virgil Solis Febris.jpg|thumb|Febris]] 
*[[Febris]] (''fever'' in [[Latin]]) is the goddess of fever  in [[Roman mythology]]. People with fevers would visit her temples. 
*Tertiana and Quartana are the goddesses of tertian and quartan fevers of malaria in Roman mythology.<ref>{{Citation |last=Scheid |first=John |title=Febris |date=2015-12-22 |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2651 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2651 |isbn=978-0-19-938113-5 |access-date=2023-01-23}}</ref>
*[[Jvarasura]] (''fever-demon'' in [[Hindi]]) is the personification of fever and disease in [[Hindu mythology|Hindu]] and [[Buddhist mythology]].

===Pediatrics===
Fever is often viewed with greater concern by parents and healthcare professionals than might be deserved, a phenomenon known as fever phobia,<ref name=Peds2011/><ref name = Crocetti2001>{{cite journal | vauthors = Crocetti M, Moghbeli N, Serwint J | title = Fever Phobia Revisited: Have Parental Misconceptions About Fever Changed in 20 Years? | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 107 | issue = 6 | pages = 1241–1246 | date = June 2001 | pmid = 11389237 | doi = 10.1542/peds.107.6.1241 | url = https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/107/6/1241 | access-date = 31 March 2020 }}</ref> which is based in both caregiver's and parents' misconceptions about fever in children. Among them, many parents incorrectly believe that fever is a [[disease]] rather than a [[medical sign]], that even low fevers are harmful, and that any temperature even briefly or slightly above the oversimplified "normal" number marked on a thermometer is a clinically significant fever.<ref name = Crocetti2001/> They are also afraid of harmless side effects like [[febrile seizure]]s and dramatically overestimate the likelihood of permanent damage from typical fevers.<ref name = Crocetti2001/> The underlying problem, according to professor of pediatrics Barton D. Schmitt, is that "as parents we tend to suspect that our children's brains may melt."<ref>{{cite news |title=Lifting a Veil of Fear to See a Few Benefits of Fever |author=Klass, Perri |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 January 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11klass.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929041558/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11klass.html |archive-date=29 September 2015  }}</ref> As a result of these misconceptions parents are anxious, give the child fever-reducing medicine when the temperature is technically normal or only slightly elevated, and interfere with the child's sleep to give the child more medicine.<ref name = Crocetti2001/>